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Trump-Putin meeting rekindles ridiculed cyber plan - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com › story › 2018/07/16 › trump...Jul 16, 2018 — President Donald Trump once suggested a joint Russian-American task force to protect future elections from hackers.
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave. (Published 2019)
President Trump spent much of his campaign essentially disparaging America. In office, however, he has wrapped himself in the flag.
July 16, 2019
"...He did not believe in “American exceptionalism,” he said, because America was not exceptional. Instead, it was a “laughingstock” that was no better than Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia. By promising to make America great again, he made it clear that he believed it was not great anymore.
That was then. Now the president who trash-talked America more than any other in modern times says anyone who trash-talks America should leave. The president, who took office with an inaugural address decrying “American carnage,” now says that it is unpatriotic to speak ill of the country. And on Tuesday, he went further, equating attacks on him by his political opponents with attacks on “the Country, the Flag.”
The love-it-or-leave-it argument is hardly new, but in recent years, it has rarely played out at the volume and level it has since Mr. Trump on Sunday told a group of liberal, first-year Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to their home countries, even though three of the four were born in the United States... In 2013, he praised Mr. Putin for an “amazing” Op-Ed in The New York Times that said the United States was not special and criticized Mr. Obama for asserting American exceptionalism.
Speaking on CNN, Mr. Trump said, “You think of the term as being fine, but all of a sudden you say, what if you’re in Germany or Japan or any one of 100 different countries? You’re not going to like that term. It’s very insulting, and Putin really put it to him (Obama) about that.” As for whether Americans were exceptional, he said, “Why would we be?” citing the disastrous Iraq war.... Mr. Trump’s affinity for Russia was so pronounced during the campaign that Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, now the Republican leader in the House, privately told colleagues that “I think Putin pays” Mr. Trump. Last year, Mr. Trump blamed poor relations with Russia on “many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity” — to which the Russian Foreign Ministry then tweeted, “We agree.” .."
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